Tea Party Speaker: Grover Norquist Is A Secret Muslim Because He Has A Beard

Cathie Adams, president of the Texas Eagle Forum and former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, made questionable remarks about anti-tax activist Grover Norquist during a recent speech on “Radical Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood.”

In a video posted by the Far North Dallas Tea Party and reported on by Right Wing Watch, Adams can be heard saying Norquist is “showing signs of converting to Islam himself,” citing his beard as evidence.

“Many of us know him because often times we like what he says about economic issues, but Grover Norquist is trouble with a capital T,” Adams says in the video. “As you see he has a beard, and he’s showing signs of converting to Islam himself.”

“He’s married to a Muslim woman, but he denies that he has converted himself. He denies that,” Adams says.

Norquist has been the subject of anti-Muslim attacks before. Frank Gaffney, the head of the Center for Security Policy, has accused Norquist of “credentialing the perpetrators of this Muslim Brotherhood influence operation” in the past.

Perhaps she’s on to something. Other likely Muslims of note include former President Abraham Lincoln, former President and victorious Union General Ulysses S. Grant, former President James Garfield, former President Benjamin Harrison, Chuck Norris, the actor who played “Al” on Home Improvement, that guy on the packages of Brawny paper towels, and every single Hassidic Jew in the world.

(Incidentally, this has inspired me to create a new Tag category called “Headdesk Of The Day.” I suspect it will be quite active.)

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Yeah, Gaffeny, Geller & David Horowitz have some sort of conspiratorial obsession with Norquist and Suhail Khan, who was in the Bush admin. Their bigoted poison has infected the Tea Party and the GOP grassroots in general.

As a new study published in the American Sociological Review notes, the Republican Party’s tacit endorsement of its loudest anti-Islam elements—and conservative media outlets like Fox News that aired, promoted, and legitimized this fear-mongering—had the effect of mainstreaming what were once fringe theories.

Pamela Geller, Frank Gaffney and David Horowitz have been frequent guests on Fox, for example making appearances to spew that Huma Abadein sekrit Muslim Brotherhood infiltrator McCarthyite sewage, which Michelle Bachmann then parroted.

Adams said that environmentalists are blasphemers because “these people worship the creation instead of the Creator” and that is why “our children are being taught now in public schools to capitalize the “E” of “Earth”; it is an object of worship.”

Remember, Adams is not an isolated loon on a street corner waving a sign, she is the former chair of the Texas Republican Party.

At Rumproast it has been suggested that Norquist’s anti-tax pledge is indeed a jihadist plot, which will bankrupt America & leave us wide open for conquest. And that just maybe all those who signed his pledge should be arrested as traitors & shipped to Gitmo.

Once again, what one Republican say is applied to all Republicans. The real question for Norquist is how does he reconcile his desire for low taxes with his desire to import millions of third world immigrants who will be automatic Democratic Party voters and who will demand higher taxes.

Maybe is would be easier to say that Norquist has become the spokesman for the cheap labor Republicans.

However, Norquist is married to a Muslim woman and has been a big proponent of open borders and unlimited immigration. Norquist is just a representative of the cheap labor segment of the Republican Party but fails to understand how issues are linked.

Supporting open borders to lower pay fails if everyone has to pay higher taxes to make up the difference. If where are fewer middle class people in the U.S., there are fewer potential customers for Sheldon Adelson’s casinos or other businesses run by the cheap labor Republicans.

If Norquist really wants lower taxes, then the portion of the population that is poor needs to be as small as possible and he should want the number of children born to single mothers to approach zero.

@superdestroyer: This isn’t just any random Republican, this is the former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.

There comes a point at which we can conclude a person’s statements are representative of the views of a majority of an organization’s members, and that point is reached when that person is chosen as that organization’s leader.

Now of course Norquist isn’t a Muslim. But an important issue is, why would it matter if someone influential in public life *was* a Muslim? Is it any better or worse that person being a Protestant or a Catholic, or Jewish?